Re: Firewall Zones - help

Ah well - I re-installed ZA...

After I had installed ZA, when I opened up FireFox I got two pop-up messages asking for FireFox to access the internet. I allowed both of them - I'm just wondering if that is correct. One was going for the Destination DNS as &quot;loopback&quot; and the other alert was going to the Destination DNS as &quot;www.l&quot;...

Re: Firewall Zones - help

Hi!you reintalled and you got a popup?Have you installed with default settings? Does not sound like....If you are not very confident on settings and applications you should install with default settings.On default settings you willnot geta pop-up and ZA will automatically setup your applications.Cheers,Fax

Re: Firewall Zones - help

Not a pop-up; an alert that you get when a programme accesses the internet.

I looked under what the SmartDefence advisor said and said it could bo a trojan (to which I did a full, deep virus scan and found nothing) or that it was FireFox asking permission to connect to the internet. Since both messages were for FireFox I allowed them both. SmartDefence Advisor is on auto and it says that it will configure programme access when available. Did I do wrong then allowing them? :S

Re: Firewall Zones - help

<BLOCKQUOTE><HR>Stormsy wrote:
Not a pop-up; an alert that you get when a programme accesses the internet.
<HR></BLOCKQUOTE>Yes... the same. You have not installed as you should. You should NOT get programme access requests.Don't touch default settings if you are not sure of what you are doing.And may be a nice reading of the manual would also be useful:http://download.zonealarm.com/bin/me...ser_manual.pdf
Cheers,Fax

Re: Firewall Zones - help

Hi!yes and you should leave it to AUTO also consideringthat you could not figure out even the permission for firefox You will still get some pop-up after the 21 day but far less and with less possibility of making a mistakes and hamper un-necessarily your connection.Cheers,Fax

Re: Firewall Zones - thankyou Guru Fax et al!

Your help has been invaluable! Thankyou Guru Fax and all.

I did what you told me to; I re-installed ZA and left Programme Control on Auto-Learn (left SmartDefence Advisor as Auto and left the box ticked for 'Automatically configure my network settings') and re-booted. Strange thing is though, for Windows Updates it has classed it as SuperTrusted, but has put a red cross in every single column (?). I read somewhere else that this was normal, but why is it set like so? I went to use WinUpdate manually to see if there were any issues with what ZA had set and to see if I got an error saying it was being blocked by my firewall - nothing! It worked normally.

As for using FireFox - when I opened it up to check if my net was working, I then looked in the Programme Logs and saw the exact same alerts appear as before (except ZA allowed them automatically.)